Drew Costa figured that at this point, the call would never come.
He tried out for the Clemson football team in each of his first two years on campus, but there was no room on the roster for a place-kicker.
“We really liked him in the fall, but we just didn’t have a spot,” coach Dabo Swinney recalled. “We inventoried him. We were going to bring him out in the spring.”
Costa underwent hernia surgery shortly before that spring session and could not kick. Another walk-on, Greg Huegel, seized that roster spot, and through the next two season, he developed into an All-American.